Christopher Lane is the Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature at Northwestern University and a recent Guggenheim fellow. A London-born literary critic and intellectual historian, he teaches and writes about literature, psychology, and psychiatry. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, New York Sun, Slate, Chronicle Review, New Humanist, and New Statesman and Society

Michael J. Perrotti, Ph.D., is a forensic psychologist. He has over 30 years of experience including civil, prosecution, defense counsel, family court and the US Government. Perrotti has been called in the California courts numerous times as an expert witness for criminal and civil cases as well as an expert consultant on CSI crime scenes.